windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v287/Hydrus.Network.287.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v287/Hydrus.Network.287.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
os x
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v287/Hydrus.Network.287.-.OS.X.-.App.dmg
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v287/Hydrus.Network.287.-.OS.X.-.Extract.only.tar.gz
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v287/Hydrus.Network.287.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz
source
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/archive/v287.tar.gz
I had a busy but great week.
Please note that I will be spending the next two weeks working on an important library update (I'll be trying to move from wxPython 3 to 4 for all platforms). There will be no release next week.
thumbnail DnD
The surprise Christmas present is the first prototype of thumbnail drag-and-drop! If you drag and drop some thumbnails to a page tab, the files will be moved to that page! If you drop them on a 'page of pages' tab, they'll go to the current media page beneath it, and if you drop on some empty tab area space, the thumbs will go into a new window. If you hold down control when you drop, the thumbs will copy instead of move.
I have been thinking about this for a long time. A lot of different little things went into its preparation, so bringing it together this week was a nice cap on it all. The thing in itself is a cool new tool that I expect to do more with in future.
This is a prototype. It has worked well in all my testing, but there may be unusual situations where some thumbnails get lost or do not render correctly or something. If this happens to you, please let me know the details. Something that did trip me up a couple of times is that if you drop thumbs onto a page that already has them, it may seem like they never landed, as the file count will not increase and they won't appear appended at the end–but really, they were merged into the ones already there.
I will add some options in a release soon to flip the control-to-copy behaviour and any other custom preferences we can think of for this.
new import presentation
All 'file import options' (and hence all import contexts) now have 'presentation' options. This first version has three choices:
- show new files
- show files already in inbox
- show files already in archive
By unchecking one, the files that fit into that category will still be imported and everything, but they will not 'present' in the import context. For import pages, this means appending the thumbnail, and for subscriptions and import folders, this means appearing in the popup file button. So, if you uncheck all presentation options on a gallery download page, the queue will process but no thumbnails at all will appear!
Regular import and download pages default to presenting everything, just like before. Subscriptions and import folders only include 'new' files (i.e. ignoring all 'already in db' files in their popup button), which I think was the old behaviour, at least most of the time. In any case, if you would like to see all of the files of a sub or only see inbox files from a hard drive import, you can now do it simply.
This will also be useful for users running big (10k+ files) import pages. Adding new thumbs to already weighty pages is computationally expensive, and these big pages tend to make the gui pretty laggy. Now if you have a big import, you can scale back its thumbnail presentation however you like to keep things running smooth!
Please note that all existing import queues will be updated to the new system. Unfortunately, I could only choose one way for them to go, so I went safe and gave them all the 'quiet' subscription's 'only show new files' option. This means that any import pages or thread watchers you have in your gui sessions will only show thumbnails for new files unless you edit their file import options. This will only apply to queues you have open now–all new ones will go back to the old behaviour of showing everything by default. In any case, I apologise for the inconvenience. You will get a popup on update to remind you of this.
Like with the thumb drag and drop, I will add some preferences to set the defaults for these in a future release. Let me know what you think!
misc
Adding to the presentation options above, subscriptions will now fold all their queries' downloaded files into a single popup file button for the subscription. So if your subscription has five queries that each download 20 files, you will end up with one button with 100 files waiting for you. This should reduce some of the "Show 2 files" spam some people are seeing.
Also, popup file buttons now preserve file order! Your new sub buttons will present the combined query results in a neat order, least recently imported first.
For advanced users: The file import status button now lets you import and export all the 'sources' for that import cache to clipboard or png file from its right-click menu. If you want to share all of the urls in a subscription, for instance, this makes it easy. Give it a go, let me know how it works for you! Don't put urls in hard drive importers, or gelbooru urls in deviant art downloaders or anything!
full list
- thumbnails can now be drag-and-dropped to other pages!
- dragging and dropping thumbs to another page tab will remove them from the source and append them to the destination, maintaining file order!
- DnDing thumbs to a 'page of pages' tab will put the files in the next lowest selected media page
- DnDing thumbs to a blank notebook area (or a page of pages without a selected media page) will create a new page for the thumbs
- holding down ctrl when you drop thumbnails will not remove them from the source
- please forgive the thumbnail DnD cursor, which for now will be in the 'copy' state, despite the internal DnD being move by default
- improved page tab drag and drop drop logic–dropping onto the page area itself will no longer send the page to the right-end of the current notebook
- the 'file import options' object now supports three 'presentation' booleans–for new/already_in_inbox/already_in_archive files–so you can customise whether new thumbnails appear based on each state. page imports will by default show everything, while 'quieter' import queues like import folders and subscriptions will continue to just show only 'new' files in their files popup buttons. if you have a gui page with 10k+ items in its queue, try reducing the presentation to speed it up!
- all existing import queues will be updated when they are next loaded–but please note that for simplicity and safety they will all initialise to the 'quiet' presentation method, so if you have ongoing download pages in any of your gui sessions (including thread watchers!), they will only add 'new' thumbnails unless you edit them. I apologise for the inconvenience
- the regular hdd import now has a file import options button!
- subscription query 'finished' file popups are now merged up to the subscription level–so, a sub with five queries that each get 20 new files in a run will now ultimately leave one popup with 100 files
- file popups (as produced by subscriptions and a couple other places) now preserve their import order!
- if a subscription with many queries runs out of bandwidth, it should now only give you one 'no more bandwidth to download files' message, rather than one for every outstanding query to sync
- added a checkbox to turn on/off the new random subscription syncing to the options->downloading panel
- the file import status button's menu now supports import/export of sources to clipboard/png! it _should_ also support unicode. be careful not to paste paths into a url cache, or urls from one gallery site to another, or you'll just get errors–this is prototype, so please keep like with like for now
- the png import/export system now supports raw string payloads
- the new listctrlpanel can now hang its buttons in multiple rows
- the manage subscriptions panel now has an 'overwrite checker options' button to mass-set checker options
- the manage subscriptions panel now has a 'select subs' button that selects subs based on a basic query text search
- separating merged subscriptions now sets better new subscription names of 'old_sub_name: query_text'
- saving a session from a page of pages with a custom name will no longer suggest a session name prepended by [USER]
- doubled the subscription and downloader instance default bandwidth rules to 400 and 200 rqs/day
- the 'load_images_with_pil' and 'disable_cv_for_gifs' options are now officially BUGFIX in the options–unless you know you need them on, turn them off!
- added some safeguards to the new dialog-panel system's OK stuff, which sometimes catches a duplicate OK event
- shuffled some db update status texts around
next week
Again, there will be no release next week while I work on the wx update. I will drop by the discord for a bit on Saturday, and if there is some big explosion in the next couple of days I'll push out a hotfix, but otherwise I will be a bit out of touch as I focus on the rewrite. I will post an update on Tuesday 26th on how it is going.
I will be back to the downloader stuff in the new year.
𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖞 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖒𝖆𝖘!
